Definitive Contract 80NSSC22CA169

This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Umpqua Research Company, a small business, to design and build an advanced oxygen recovery technology based on a continuous catalyst feed/carbon discharge Bosch reactor. The objective is to recover over 75% of the oxygen from metabolically-produced carbon dioxide and deliver an engineering development unit at a technology readiness level of 4. The $442,985.00...

This is a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Orbital Technologies Corporation (Orbitec) to develop the Advanced Carbothermal Electric (ACE) Reactor. The ACE Reactor is intended to efficiently extract oxygen from lunar regolith using new electric resistant heating elements, which eliminates the need for concentrated solar or laser energy used in current carbothermal...

This is a $749,283 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Reactive Innovations, LLC, a small business located in Westford, MA. The contract is for the development of a lightweight electrochemical reactor to collect and pressurize carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere, which is a key technology needed to enable in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for future missions to the Moon and Mars. The Phase I...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Giner Inc., a Massachusetts-based research and development firm, for $124,946.00. The objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing an improved electrochemical process for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from cabin air, while also recycling water and producing oxygen (O2) on long-duration space missions. The proposed process aims to more...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to P H Matter LLC, a small disadvantaged business, for the development of an Automated Carbon Formation Reactor. The $375,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract supports the research, development, and testing of technologies that could enable the conversion of carbon dioxide into value-added products for space applications. As a Phase III SBIR award, this effort...

Rotoheater LLC has been awarded a $100,000 definitive contract by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development to conduct research under Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract term is from December 1, 2023 through May 31, 2024 and involves developing a novel modular retrofittable oxidation technology (RTO) to cost-effectively control air pollution emissions from small sources. This award was made under Solicitation SBIR FY...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Uchicago Argonne, LLC to investigate electron screened, enhanced nuclear reactions by irradiating high density deuterated materials using electron linac generated bremsstrahlung gamma rays. The $510,000.00 contract has two phases: (1) hardware preparation and feasibility assessments, and (2) exposures of candidate materials and reporting. The goal is to conclusively determine if...

This is a $905,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Environmental & Life Support Technology, a small business, under the SBIR Phase II program. The contract is for the development of a catalytic post-processor for water recovery systems in long-duration space missions. The key innovation is the use of noble metal catalysts supported on porous solid carbon, which exhibit superior physical properties and performance compared to...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Fourth State LLC, a for-profit small business organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The $500,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development and pilot-scale demonstration of a plasma-driven technology to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in complex water matrices. The contract stems from a previous EPA SBIR Phase I award to Fourth...

This is a Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development to Physical Optics Corporation, a small business, for $99,993.00. The contract is for the "Regenerative Capacitive Electro-Desalination System (RECED)" under the EPA's SBIR Program. The award has a period of performance from September 1, 2015 to February 29, 2016. Physical Optics Corporation is a provider of advanced technology solutions primarily...